I want you negroes to listen up and listen good.

I woke up this morning and went down to the waterfront. On the way down I got an egg mcmuffin and a cup of coffee at the McDonalds at 9th and Cervantes.
When I got home I turned on the national tv. And a few minutes later Scarborough was talking about the "McDonalds at Cervantes and 9th".
He didn't give a shit that nobody in Peoria or Montpelier or New York City or
Albuqurque never heard of "Cervantes and 9th". Because all that mattered to him was that he knew what it was. And it mattered to me too.
None of those Fox n Friends bloviators were talking about Cervantes and 9th.
Nobody on Good Morning America was talking about Cervantes and 9th.
But goddamnit Scarborough WAS talking about it. To a national TV audience.

I don't much give a shit if you're a right-winger who thinks he's a RINO. I don't give a shit if you're a left-winger who thinks he's a right-winger. I don't give a shit if you don't like it cause he quit in the middle of his term of office. I don't give a shit if you think he murdered his secretary in the Ft. Walton office. I don't care if you think he's a blowhard and an empty suit.
Because he redeems all of that by talking about 9th and Cervantes.
He could be talking about a coffee shop outside where he's sitting at 30 Rock on west 49th St.. But he aint talking about that. He's talking about fucking 9th and Cervantes. And I think that's pretty goddamn cool.

LOL God DAMN!!!!!! We are saved!!!! We are famous!!! Let me get my Tux and run buy a Mercedes. Joe (shit head Scabbought) said our NAME on TV. Thanks Bob I will have a great day.

I'll tell you something else too. That street was named after Miguel de Cervantes who wrote Don Quixote. But he didn't write it until 50 years after his fellow spaniard decided to live on Pensacola Beach. Which is also pretty damn cool.

And when Scarborough mentions Palafox St (which he often does), what you don't know is that when the limeys ran this place, that street was called George St and was named after that limey King. But once we told that limey king to kiss our asses for good in 1812, it became known as Calle de Palafox.

Wilco has been mentioning us all over the world, to millions of folk, for 20 freaking years. Pop the bubbly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkqAbTmdnA


Choo-choo Charlie had a plenty good band
But he couldn't understand why no one would go
The World Record Players on a tour of Japan
Charlie's fixing his van with the left arm tan

He said
Monday, I'm all high
Get me out of FLA
In school, yeah
I fooled ya
Now I know I made a mistake

Blister on a turnpike, let me by
I only want to wonder why when I don't die
Oooh, I shot ya, yeah, I know
I only want to go where my wheels roll

Monday, I'm all high
Get me out of FLA
I fooled ya
In school, yeah
Now I know I made a mistake

Everybody's wondering, "Where'd he go?"
He must be down in Pensacola
Hiding from the snow

The World Record Players on a tour of Japan
Charlie's fixing his van
He's waiting for a postcard

And he said
Monday, I'm all high
Get me out of TLA
I cut class
In school, yeah
Now I know I made a mistake
I made a big mistake

Alright!

Bob wrote:I'll tell you something else too. That street was named after Miguel de Cervantes who wrote Don Quixote. But he didn't write it until 50 years after his fellow spaniard decided to live on Pensacola Beach. Which is also pretty damn cool.

And when Scarborough mentions Palafox St (which he often does), what you don't know is that when the limeys ran this place, that street was called George St and was named after that limey King. But once we told that limey king to kiss our asses for good in 1812, it became known as Calle de Palafox.

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Cervantes was an illegal immigrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFnx31nOc5E

The radio said they were gunna be playin
Pensacola Beach, the real Van Halen
Just you & me, only seventeen
I promised your mom I'd bring you home in one piece
We made out on the beach right by the stage
Baby, thats a picture thats never gunna fade

As long as there's a rock band
As long as there's some hot sand
Ill always see you singing along sittin up on my shoulders
As long as there's a back beat
As long as there's a gulf breeze
There's always gunna be a place inside my heart where I hold ya
As long as there's rock n roll and pensacola

We spent that night in the back of my car
You stopped me before we went a lil too far
We woke up and counted our pennies
Bought us some gas, had breakfast at Dennys
All day long, the Blue Angels streaked that summer sky
And Ill never forget how that concert tee shirt fit you just right

As long as there's a rock band
As long as there's some hot sand
Ill always see you singing along sittin up on my shoulders
As long as there's a back beat
As long as there's a gulf breeze
There's always gunna be a place inside my heart where I hold ya
As long as there's rock n roll and pensacola

Oh, lookin back, it seems like a dream
Van Halen broke up & so did we

But,
As long as there's a rock band
As long as there's some hot sand
Ill always see you singing along sittin up on my shoulders
As long as there's a back beat
As long as there's a gulf breeze
There's always gunna be a place inside my heart where I hold ya
As long as there's rock n roll and pensacola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlAQMtkpso

Well I found him in Pensacola
In a trailer in the sand
The man from the picture
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Creased and yellowed in my hand
He was squinting and stubbled

And standing in the door
He said if you've come to take the car away
I don't have it anymore
I don't have it anymore
He got the gospel on the radio
And the gospel on TV
He got all of the transcripts
Back to 1963
Back to 1963

He said I sold my blood for money
There wasn't any pain

But I just can't stand the feeling
It's in someone else's veins
It's in someone else's veins
Momma took me aside

And she tried to change my mind
She said, don't waste your time in looking
There's nothing, nothing left to find
Nothing, nothing left to find
So I left him down in Pensacola

In a trailer in the sand
The man from the picture
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Creased and yellowed in my hand

Chapter 12, the one where Bob finds his google.

Pensacola
The Manchester Orchestra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBmizSr9Urg

Now I have a nagging flaw I never saw it sneaking up
it wrapped it's dirty arms around me
Pockets full of blood
After I had seen the sight I hardly had a choice to fight
A nail snuck out behind the van and it hit me
Through my sweater and my shirt
And when I looked at Michael he heard "I need to be alone"
But when he turned his head I soon corrected "Need to be at home"
It took me all this time to get where I said I would never be
I hope it's not even out there
I hope eventually you'll see what you've been turning me into
It's all for you

It feels like 37 years and I am nothing but a bank
If we could build our credit'score "Incredible," they'll surely say
But I can credit only one to focus all the fame
It has the first and last even the middle of my very name
I am the greatest man that never lived and now i never sleep
I never lost a fight but never knew I started one the same
I never knew how capable I would become

I'm tired of talking to a wall when I could talk to someone else
It's got seven days without a word
And you're with someone somewhere else

My daughter, she barely eats
She barely sleeps
She barely speaks
My daughter, she barely eats
She barely sleeps
She barely speaks to me

(To me, to me)
We spent the most of nights defending fights you fought in the past
But it was different now and I'm entirely too drunk to ask
(To me, to me)
You spend most every day enjoying the sun and hoping it lasts
(To me, to me)
I have a funny gut and feeling doubtful you'll get it back
(To me, to me)
I have a funny gut and feeling doubtful you'll get it back

Alcohol, dirty malls, Pensacola, Florida bars

Only problem is we aint got Merle Haggard, George Jones and Johnny Cash givin us a sendup like our sister city does. lol

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Johnny_Cash:Mobile_Bay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRN3hik91VY

This beats hell out of "dirty malls and bars"...

We were gathered 'round the garbage can passin' round the bottle,
We were cold and burning anything, that was dry enough to burn.
A shakin' man said he had left his family back in Boston,
And I knew I'd hear a whole lot more, before it came my turn.
A bearded man in his army coat said the answer boys is Jesus,
The one called Joe said all I know is ain't January hell?
One guy said let's have a drink to Flagstaff Arizona?
And I thought I might freeze to death before id get to tell.

'Bout Mobile Bay , magnolia blossoms. Cool summer nights
Warm rollin' seas. And all my dreams, somewhere I'd lost 'em,
Mobile Bay, magnolia leaves, sweet Rosalee.

The sun was barely comin' up on the wrong side of Chicago
And I was cold and hungry and all the wine was gone.
People passed and pointed, said "there's another wino".
They didn't know that one more time my dreams would take me home.

Back to, Mobile Bay, magnolia blossoms. cool summer nights
Warm rollin' seas. And all my dreams, somewhere I'd lost 'em,
Mobile bay, magnolia leaves, sweet Rosalee.

Mobile Bay. magnolia blossoms, cool summer nights
Warm rollin seas. And all my dreams, somewhere I'd lost 'em,
Mobile Bay, magnolia leaves, sweet Rosalee.

That's pretty harsh, CG. lol

And now for THE greatest song ever sung.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr4EGRn_HEQ

Well I ain't afraid of dyin', it's the thought of being dead
I wanna go on being me once my eulogy's been read
Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest
You can put my mind at ease if you fulfill my last request

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just let my headstone be a neon sign
Let it burn in mem'ry of all of my good times
Fix me up with a manequin, just remember I like blondes
I'll be the life of the party even when I'm dead and gone

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just make your next selection and while your still in line
You can pay you last respects one quarter at a time

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Oh, prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Hallmarkgrad1 wrote:My Brother was playing at the Hill Top one night. A dude was really really drunk. He staggered up to play the Juke Box. Just as he pressed the key, he passed out. But he did not fall, he got wedged between the Pinball machine and the Juke box, just like in the song. They left him there until he finally fell down. True story,Very very funny

lol

[quote="Bob"]Pensacola
The Manchester Orchestra

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See Bob...the difference here is that I'm a fan of Wilco and knew the song w/out using the googlers.

Same w/ this one by Joan Osborne....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlAQMtkpso

Bob,

I loved it. Joe just let it be known, the Mayor of NY can tell everybody about how bad a 32 oz drink is but............the best damn coffee in Pensacola can be had at MacDonalds in Pensacola where his son goes daily........

Joe is putting Pensacola on the maps in America today....I know Mr. Hallmark does not like Joe, Probably thinks the coffee at Mac' sucks, and that all 32 oz drinks should be banned from Pensacola so the children will have the energy to play on those abandoned fields......but damn......that was pretty cool this morning.

Roddy wrote:

See Bob...the difference here is that I'm a fan of Wilco and knew the song w/out using the googlers.

Same w/ this one by Joan Osborne....

That is commendable, Roddy. But see with me it's like this. I'm an old model human whose brain didn't come with that much RAM installed. And to make matters worse, alcohol has now disabled much of that RAM. So I have to augment that limited data with the google "cloud". But my situation does have it's advantages. No matter how much of my limited RAM gets soaked with alcohol, it does not have any effect on the cloud data which remains perfectly intact.

2seaoat wrote:Bob,

I loved it. Joe just let it be known, the Mayor of NY can tell everybody about how bad a 32 oz drink is but............the best damn coffee in Pensacola can be had at MacDonalds in Pensacola where his son goes daily........

Joe is putting Pensacola on the maps in America today....I know Mr. Hallmark does not like Joe, Probably thinks the coffee at Mac' sucks, and that all 32 oz drinks should be banned from Pensacola so the children will have the energy to play on those abandoned fields......but damn......that was pretty cool this morning.

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Yep. We didn't exist until a redneck neo-con flip-flopping drug abusing alcoholic involved in a cover-up of a very mysterious death of his g'friend who ran as a Republican because he could not be elected as a Libertarian made everyone stand up and take notice.

Bullshit.

2seaoat wrote:Bob,

I loved it. Joe just let it be known, the Mayor of NY can tell everybody about how bad a 32 oz drink is but............the best damn coffee in Pensacola can be had at MacDonalds in Pensacola where his son goes daily........

I'm glad somebody else besides me gets it, seaoat. Thanks to Joe, a lot of uppity yankees now have our 9th and Cervantes McDonalds on their radar. We're not just a hillbilly podunk anymore. lol

Bob wrote:

2seaoat wrote:Bob,

I loved it. Joe just let it be known, the Mayor of NY can tell everybody about how bad a 32 oz drink is but............the best damn coffee in Pensacola can be had at MacDonalds in Pensacola where his son goes daily........

I'm glad somebody else besides me gets it, seaoat. Thanks to Joe, a lot of uppity yankees now have our 9th and Cervantes McDonalds on their radar. We're not just a hillbilly podunk anymore. lol

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Bullshit.

I know when I travel, I always look for the McDonalds some punk ass moron talking head mentioned in his morning movement.

I like Joe. I think he does good things for Pensacola's reputation. More than he could accomplish if he was still in the House. The innuendo, is simply unfounded and typical tear down the successful guy mentality which permeates the air around the bay......I think it might be a toxic brew in the bay which causes brain farts.

Roddy wrote:a redneck neo-con flip-flopping drug abusing alcoholic involved in a cover-up of a very mysterious death of his g'friend who ran as a Republican because he could not be elected as a Libertarian

That's harsh, roddy. lol